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- Notes:
- Date of publication printed after place of publication on title page.
- Among the many topics addressed by this compendium of home economics and estate management are tobacco (p. 137 and 363); American aloe recently made available in Germany (p. 87); Olfert Dapper's report on the white bees of Guatemala and the blue bees of the Antilles, and discusion of American flowers (p. 360-361); Also cited are Georg Marcgraf's report of Braziliams using arrows and roots to catch fish, and a report on Darien from Lionel Wafer (p. 310).
- Signatures: )(⁸ (-)(8) A-2H⁸
- Title page printed in red and black; head and tail pieces; initials.
- Includes indexes.
Citation
"Julii Bernhards von Rohr Compendieuse Hausshaltungs-Bibliotheck:
darinnen nicht allein die neuesten und besten Autores, die so wohl von der Hausshaltung überhaupt, als vom Ackerbau, Viehzucht, Jägerey, Gärtneren, Kochen, Bierbrauen, Weinbergen, Wäldern, Bergwerken u.s.w. geschrieben, recensiret und beurtheilet, Sondern auch überall des Autoris eigene meditationes, nebst andern curieusen Observationen aus den Antiquitaeten, der Physic und Mathematic eingemischet werden
"
(1716).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:730672/
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